Jen Psaki looks back at how Democrats made Republicans pay for their efforts to kill Obamacare by making that a central focus of House races that ultimately flipped the House to Democratic control. Donald Trump's budget bill is so wildly unpopular that Democratic candidates are already preparing to run against the bill and anyone who supported it. Republicans, in the meantime, are busy trying to distract Americans from what they're doing.
The good news for health care advocates is that the Affordable Care Act is quite popular. The bad news is the Republicans' megabill would sabotage "Obamacare."
In a speech in 2010, as the excruciating year-long debate over the Affordable Care Act neared its end, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
Republicans have dropped the "repeal and replace" phrasing, but their megabill is an anti-ACA package that would take coverage from millions of Americans.
The first three times Republicans asked the Supreme Court to take a sledgehammer to the Affordable Care Act, they failed. Will the fourth time be the charm?